Psychology and You

Research shows that therapeutic change comes about quicker and feels deeper if three things are perpetually and mindfully present in the dialogue and encounter between a psychologist/counsellor and a client: BOND, GOALS AND METHODS. I’ve found in my counselling work that sagebrush outpatient of the therapy session stifles the client’s spirit and inhibits the flow of our encounter, so, my […]

Most people view gratitude as a polite expression of appreciation for help, a gift, or any other type of benefit. However, a number of psychologists are finding that an overall “attitude of gratitude” can have a positive effect on your life.

Self-fulfillment, or the ability to accomplish your hopes and dreams through your own efforts, is one thing many people seek in order to have a satisfying, happy life. To some doctors, they offer consulting for opening a rehab center to find self-fulfillment that may seem difficult or out of reach. When it comes to self-fulfillment, […]

Choosing to make a difference each and every day can be a real-life revelation and actualization of your humanity in the making. Making a difference doesn’t need to be about the big things, the little things will do just fine. Actually, attending to the little things that concern another can build a bigger bond, trust […]

For me, happiness arises and subsides to the degree that I practice “the cultivation of healthy habits”. These healthy habits exist in three domains of activity/being: Getting-Growing-Giving. With getting, I enjoy the pleasures of things; with growing, I live in the zone of flow-based engagement; with giving, I identify with “something larger” than myself while […]

We often ‘day dream’ as we fall off to sleep. Lucid dreaming is different – it takes place when we are actually asleep. At some time, during your 90-minute sleep cycle most of us, will almost always begin dreaming. In an 8-hour night sleep, you’ll have 40 to 50 minutes of dreaming in each 90 […]

A long time ago, I was in a partnership with a group of people, some family members, some associates, and we had a set of companies that were doing quite well. One of the companies was struggling and the partner, let’s call him ‘Bob’, who was running that particular company began to get depressed and […]

by: Matthew Ferguson There have been many recent studies into what happiness means and how to go about consciously creating it. We are regularly told of the “age of austerity” with the implication we are all going to share, not only austerity but a degree of unhappiness as a result. If we buy into this […]